NCA seizes properties from fine wine and mortgage fraudsters

The National Crime Agency has seized assets worth £600,000 from an organised crime group linked to wine and mortgage fraud.

NCA officers seized two flats and the freehold title for the flats' building after making a civil recovery order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

The properties were believed to be bought with the proceeds of crime by the defendants John George Evans, 34, his wife Josephine Evans, 34, his brother Richard Lee Evans, 29, and their mother Joan Ann Evans, 58.

Officers also seized £288,341 from bank accounts belonging to John Evans, his wife and mother.

The money was what remained from the sale of a property in Bromley bought through mortgage fraud.

It is the NCA's belief that the properties were funded by fraudulent trading, money laundering, tax evasion and mortgage fraud.